Parental assessment of functional outcome after corpus callosotomy

Epilepsia

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 753-757

  Gilliam, Frank ^a,b   Wyllie, Elaine ^a   Kotagal, Prakash ^a   Geckler, Cheri ^a   Rusyniak, George ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Corpus callosotomy; Epilepsy; Outcome; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATISFACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029797024     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1996.tb00647.x     Document Type: Article

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